NW China
Shaanxi
Xi’an

Lianhu

Lianhu District is one of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of , the capital of , Northwest . The district borders the districts of Weiyang to the north, Xincheng to the east, Beilin to the southeast, and Yanta to the southeast.
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  • Type: City with 699,000 residents
  • Description: district in Shaanxi Province, China
  • Also known as: “Lianhu District” and “Lianhu, Xi’an”

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Great Mosque of Xi’an and Small Wild Goose Pagoda.

Mosque
Photo: 長安城根喚朱雀, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Great Mosque of Xi'an is one of the largest premodern in . Although the mosque was first built in 742 AD during the Tang dynasty, its current form was largely constructed in 1384 AD during Emperor Hongwu's reign of the Ming dynasty, as recorded by the Records of Xi'an Municipality.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Small or Little Wild Goose Pagoda is one of two significant Buddhist pagodas in , , China, the site of the old Han and Tang capital Chang'an.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
The of Xi'an, built in 1384 during the early Ming Dynasty, is a symbol of the city of and one of the grandest of its kind in China. The also contains several large bronze-cast bells from the Tang Dynasty.

Lianhu

Latitude
34.2689° or 34° 16′ 8″ north
Longitude
108.9304° or 108° 55′ 50″ east
Population
699,000
Elevation
413 metres (1,355 feet)
Open location code
8P6C7W9J+G5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6416740002
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2001418
Wiki­data ID
Q1358528
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Lianhu” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Lianhu Barrutia”
  • Cebuano: “Lianhu Qu”
  • Chinese: “Liân-ô͘-khu”
  • Chinese: “莲湖”
  • Chinese: “莲湖区”
  • Chinese: “蓮湖”
  • Chinese: “蓮湖區”
  • Dutch: “Lianhu District”
  • French: “district de Lianhu”
  • French: “District de Lianhu”
  • French: “Lianhu”
  • Gan Chinese: “莲湖区”
  • German: “Lianhu”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Lianhu”
  • Japanese: “蓮湖区”
  • Korean: “롄후구”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Liân-ô͘-khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lianhu”
  • Norwegian: “Lianhu”
  • Polish: “Lianhu”
  • Russian: “Ляньху”
  • Spanish: “Lianhu”
  • Swedish: “Lianhu”
  • Vietnamese: “Liên Hồ”
  • Welsh: “Ardal Lianhu”
  • Wu Chinese: “莲湖区”
  • Yue Chinese: “蓮湖區”

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